If you play a CD in your car and you have passengers, you owe the record company a penalty for the passengers hearing the song.
Don't blame the passengers, ban speaker manufacturers and the legal ownership of them!
Fact is the medium the song is recorded on ought to not make any difference.
I say that because the RIAA is completely hypocritical on this issue. For years people have made mix tapes, off the radio or other tapes and records, and cd’s, and played them, shared them, and the RIAA never said thing one. And you could get very good recordings that people can still listen to 20 years later. They didn’t care about IP violations then. They only are going to bitch about IP rights when people go cd to cd? They’ve never complained about cd to tape, tape to tape on the principle of IP rights.
RIAA already has precedent of ignoring those that copied mix tapes for others. Only since the recording industry sales have dropped they started to care about it. In the past they didn’t.